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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series on vineyards and wineries in Rappahannock County.)
When the Kellert family moved to Amissville in 1986, they drew a great deal of attention from the neighbors.
First to arrive in a U-Haul truck were 110 100-pound root balls wrapped in plastic garbage bags and stored in the bam — once a bustling horse stable on U.S. 211, across from the Amissville fire station.
As spring greened the county, the Kellerts drew even more attention.
“People would stop and look across the fence,” Cheryl Kellert said, sitting in her Amissville living room. “Sometimes, people would get out and take pictures of the fields or picnic in the drive and point to the fields with suspicion,” she laughed, remembering the attention the poles strung with wire drew.
No, they weren’t jumps for horses. No, they weren’t tobacco or dwarf fruit trees. The Kellerts were building a vineyard.
“We were looking for the perfect property for years,” Mrs. Kellert said, adding they happened upon the place. “We knew what we wanted.”
What the family from Woodbridge wanted was a home and several acres to begin Gray Ghost Vineyards.
“We started with 60 plants,” Mrs. Kellert said with a smile.
The start was in Woodbridge. Behind their suburban home, the couple cared for probably the first and only vineyard in Woodbridge.
“We bought the plants from Ingleside Vineyards,” she said, adding
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